Parts of Speech: Verb Verbs indicates action or existence. Verbs fall into three classes: action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. e Action verbs express action. Some action verbs ate transitive, others intransitive. A transitive verb has a direct object that receives or results from the action and rounds out the meaning of the sentence. An intransitive verb requires no direct object to complete the meaning of the sentence. e " The photographer took the picture. (Transitive) " Lee Ann gasped loudly. (Intransitive) Linking verbs show existence—what something is, was, or will be—trather than action. Linking verbs are intransitive and tie their subjects to subject complements. Some subject complements are nouns of noun substitutes that rename their subjects. Others are adjectives that describe their subjects. = Ms. Smith is our new director. (Complements director renames subjects Ms. Smith. # The soup was lukewarm. (Complement_lukewarm describes subject soup. e The most common linking verbs are forms of the verb “to be” (is, are, am, was, were, be, being, been.) Likewise, verbs such as seem, become, appear, remain, feel, look, smell, sound, and taste function as linking verbs when they do not indicate actual physical action. " Harry looked angry. 10